Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish a timeline of the deployment of demountable classrooms for St Leonard’s Catholic School in the City of Durham.

St Leonard’s Catholic School has an assigned project director who has been working with the trust and school leadership team, providing support and direction to ensure all children return to face-to-face education as quickly as possible. As a result of this work, all pupils returned to full-time face-to-face learning on 30 October 2023.

Work is underway to provide temporary classrooms on the school playing field, which will allow years 7 and 8 to return from Ushaw College. The Department is working with the school on timing of the move, and this will be early in the new year.